With the new Aperture 3, there is a lot of different 'presets' of common digital effect, Selinium tone is one, and this one is Cross Processing. Aperture will show a quick thumbnail preview of the effect when you mouse-over on different presets, so you will know how the image will look like before clicking on it. It's real fun!
This Cross Process effect (there are two different cross process presets in Aperture 3) resembles the E-to-C effect in the film age. "E" refers to E6, which is the Kodak process for color reversal slide films; and "C" refers to C41, the Kodak process for color negative films. People actually get this idea by accident: some people mistakenly used the C41 to process color reversal slide, and they find the processed slide to be of high contrasted and mis-colored. Some people like the surreal feeling, and intentionally use E-to-C as a creative tool of photography.
It's the old days. Now we have digital processing, and you don't need to know a lot about technical to try different color effect. Many new programs also have this kind of effect build-in, so all you need to do is one mouse click. HOW GOOD IT THAT!!
An off-finder street snap with wide angle, cropped and leveled. "Cross Process1" effect in Aperture.
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